May an employer require its employee to have health coverage?

[GMK]

Doubt if there are many benefits guys on this site, seems to be mostly retirement.

Some of us need both, so thanks for your posts.

As an aside, we were scrambling for while when they were going to move the small group boundary up to 100 and force us into the age banded, community rated mode. It would have significantly increased the premiums, co-pays, and deductibles compared to our current plan (coverage by a long-established coop). Fortunately, they left the boundary at 50, so we could keep our plan.

[Peter Gulia]

Ivena, thank you for describing the economics.

And GMK is right that many of us need (and welcome) help on health plans and employee-benefits topics beyond retirement plans.